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Buddhism
Buddhist sacred sites trace the movement of teachings, relics, monastic communities, cave practice, stupas, temples, and pilgrimage routes across Asia and beyond.
664 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
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Buddhism sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Wat Si Chum
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Si Chum is organized around Phra Achana, the immense seated Buddha visible through a narrow opening in the mondop....
Wat Si Sawai
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Si Sawai preserves three Lopburi-style prangs and evidence of changing religious use....
Wat Sothon Wararam Worawihan
Chachoengsao, Chachoengsao, Thailand
Wat Sothon Wararam Worawihan is a major living temple beside the Bang Pakong River....
Wat Suan Dok
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Suan Dok joins a great relic chedi, an open-sided assembly hall, Phra Chao Kao Tue, a cemetery of Chiang Mai royalty, and Buddhist higher education....
Wat Suthat
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Suthat gathers royal planning, a monumental Sukhothai Buddha, murals, carved doors, and a distinctive sacred landscape without a conventional central chedi....
Wat Tham Khao Noi
Tha Muang, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Wat Tham Khao Noi is a Vietnamese-Mahayana Buddhist temple beside Wat Tham Sua in Tha Muang....
Wat Tham Sua, Kanchanaburi
Tha Muang, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Wat Tham Sua in Kanchanaburi is a living hill temple founded in 1971. Provincial sources identify its large blessing-posture Buddha and tall Ket Kaeo Maha Prasat chedi;...
Wat Tham Suea, Krabi
Mueang Krabi, Krabi, Thailand
Wat Tham Suea in Krabi is a living Buddhist monastery embedded in limestone caves and forest, with a demanding stair route to a summit Buddha and viewpoint....
Wat Umong
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Umong is a forest monastery at the foot of Doi Suthep where brick tunnels, Buddha images, a chedi, trees, and meditation practice form one environment....
Wat Xieng Mouane
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
In the heart of Luang Prabang's UNESCO heritage peninsula, Wat Xieng Mouane is a mid-19th-century royal-era temple whose name means 'Melodious Sounds.' Behind its gold...
Wat Xieng Thong, Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
At the tip of Luang Prabang's peninsula, where the Mekong meets the Nam Khan, Wat Xieng Thong has stood since 1560....
Wat Xiengthong
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
On the northern tip of the Luang Prabang peninsula, where the Mekong meets the Nam Khan, Wat Xieng Thong gathers four centuries of Lao devotion under its low, cascading...
Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon is a living monastery southeast of Ayutthaya's island. Its great chedi commemorates King Naresuan's victory, while an active sangha, principal Buddha...
Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit is easy to append mentally to the nearby palace ruins, yet its sacred life is distinct....
Woljeongsa Temple
Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Woljeongsa’s entrance is a long adjustment of sight and pace. Fir trunks rise in repeated verticals before the path reaches Geumganggyo and the main precinct; within the...
Xá Lợi Pagoda
Xuân Hòa, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Xá Lợi Pagoda is a modern Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist center named for sacred relics of Śākyamuni Buddha....
Yakcheonsa Temple
Seogwipo, Jeju-do, South Korea
Yakcheonsa grew from a small hermitage called Yaksuam into a large Buddhist complex on Jeju's southern side....
Yakuō-ji
Minami, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Yakuō-ji, Temple 23 of the Shikoku 88, is the canonical yakuyoke-no-tera — the misfortune-warding temple — of the pilgrimage....
Yakuri-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yakuri-ji clings to the western slope of Mt. Goken at 375 metres, the eighty-fifth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yakuriji Temple, Yakuri
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 85 on the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, Yakuriji sits high on Mount Goken, the Mountain of Five Swords, whose dramatic peaks thrust skyward like divine blades....
Yakushi-ji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Yakushi-ji, stands in Nara. At Yakushi-ji, Hossō Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Yakushi-ji addresses Yakushi Nyorai with Nikkō and Gakkō Bosatsu....
Yanglesho Cave
Pharping, Bagmati Province, Nepal
In this cave near Pharping, Guru Padmasambhava and his Nepali consort Shakyadevi practiced the most profound tantric sadhanas and attained the Mahamudra vidyadhara...
Yasaka-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yasaka-ji is the forty-seventh temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most layered....
Yashima-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yashima-ji crowns the mesa of Yashima, 293 metres above the Seto Inland Sea, and is the eighty-fourth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yokei-ji
Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Yokei-ji crowns Ueterasan, a low hill above the rice plains of Setouchi City. Founded in the eighth century and long affiliated with the Tendai school, the temple holds...
Yōkoku-ji
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Yōkoku-ji — known to most Kyotoites as Yanagidani Kannon — joins three rare devotional layers in one Nishiyama mountainside: a hibutsu Eleven-faced Thousand-armed Kannon...
Yokomine-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yokomine-ji clings to the northern slope of Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, at roughly 750 m elevation....
Yongmi-ri Stone Buddhas
Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Behind Yongamsa Temple, two standing Buddhas occupy a gigantic rock surface without becoming mirror images....
Yongmunsa Temple
Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Yongmunsa Temple is a working mountain sanctuary in Yangpyeong whose courtyard holds a protected ancient ginkgo....
Yoshimine-dera
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Yoshimine-dera is station 20 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Yungang Grottoes
Datong, Shanxi, China
The Yungang Grottoes stretch for a kilometer along a sandstone cliff face near Datong, Shanxi Province, a procession of 252 caves containing over 51,000 carved Buddhist...
Yūten-ji
Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan
Yūten-ji (祐天寺) is an active Jōdo-shū Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Zenjibu-ji
Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Zenjibu-ji rests on the cliff-edge of Hachiyō-san — Eight-Petalled Lotus Mountain — above Urado Bay....
Zenko-ji
Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Zenko-ji, stands in Nagano. At Zenko-ji, Nonsectarian Buddhism under Tendai and Jōdo custodianship guides custody....
Zenrakuji
Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Zenrakuji stands beside Tosa Shrine, the province's first-ranked Shintō shrine, on ground that originally hosted a syncretic kami-Buddha precinct founded by Kūkai....
Zentsū-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 75 Zentsū-ji stands on the ground where Kūkai was born in 774. Founded by him in 807 on his return from Tang China, it is the head temple of the Zentsuji-ha school...
Zhaiming Monastery
Daxi, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Founded in 1873 by devotees of the Longhua sect, one of China's fasting religions, Zhaiming Monastery has since been absorbed into mainstream Taiwanese Buddhism under the...
Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple
Linkou, New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Enshrining an Eighteen-Armed Guanyin whose divine presence was carried from Fujian's Jinjiang Longshan Temple in 1801, Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple has grown into the...
Zōjō-ji
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Zōjō-ji (増上寺) is an active Jōdo-shū Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Zōshigaya Kishimojin-dō
Toshima City, Tokyo, Japan
Zōshigaya Kishimojin-dō (雑司ヶ谷鬼子母神堂) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
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Buddhism sacred-site questions
What are Buddhism sacred sites?
Buddhism sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Buddhism sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include Japan, Thailand, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Bhutan.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
Can I map Buddhism sacred sites?
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